The Dublin Minstrel Song lyrics and guitar chords

A great tribute to Luke Kelly. Written by O'Donoghue, my thanks to Paul Tyrell for the guitar chords. well done. Recorded by The Dubliners with Patsy Watchorn doing the singing.

From[C] Dublin[F] streets and roads and down the yearsCame grea[C]t musicians and balla[G]deersThere was a[C] special one.a red haired[F] minstrel boyAnd when he[C] passed away,a city[G] morned its favorite[C] son[Chorus]All[C] around the markets and down the[F] quaysThe sad[C] news spread to the liber[G]tiesThe minstrel[C] boy is gone,he'll sing no[F] more,And[G] Luke somehow[C] we know,we'll never see your likes again.

He liked to laugh and sing,he loved a jarAnd his songs rand out in many city barsI walked by the old canal near which he used to liveDown Raglan Road I'm sad as he'd so much left to give

Now the show is over,the curtain's downA flame no longer burns in Dublin TownWhile the Liffy flows beneath the Ha'penny bridgeYou'll be remembered Luke for all your songs and all you did.

When Patsy Watchorn joined The Dubliners I thought he would bring some songs with him from the time he was with The Dublin City Ramblers. The Ramblers were as popular as The Dubliners at the height of their success during the 70s and 80s with songs like Dublin In My Tears, Luke Kelly Land, The Punch And Judy Man, Take Me Home To Mayo.

Patsy is one of the best ballad singers to come out of Ireland and when he joined The Dubliners that was the time to inject some new life into the group, as Ronnie Drew said on a number of occasions the group were getting a bit stale singing the same old songs all the time so he went solo.

The image of the notes didn't turn out as well as I expected so here they are again. The bold text are the low A notes. This song was requested by a piano accordion player, as I don't have one I decided to get out the old Yamaha keyboard and give it a try. I haven't played it in donky's years. Still it's not to bad.